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Powering back to Westminster

SIMON JENKINS is to be applauded but he fails to address how he would return to local level the massive powers that now reside in Brussels (Comment, last week). MEPs and the European parliament are an expensive irrelevancy. All the power lies with the appointed, unelected and unaccountable (perhaps even “corrupt” might be considered provocative) commission.

The denizens of this vast, bureaucratic panjandrumy believe that it is their sole purpose in life to interfere and meddle in every aspect of our daily lives. All these appointed meddlers set about building and ever extending their empires.

They find it necessary to employ secretarial meddlers, assistant meddlers, research meddlers and even assistant research meddlers. Those who are meddled with have no option but to fund the monstrous salaries, bombproof pensions, outrageous expenses, travel, office costs, cars, chauffeurs — the list is endless — of this army of parasites through their taxes. How would Jenkins